Sunday, March 15, 2009

Mount Season to Continue

The Mount will play in the inaugural Collegeinsider.com postseason tournament. The Mounties will play at James Madison on Wednesday night in the first round of the tournament.

The Mount and the Dukes did not play this year, after facing each other in each of the previous two seasons. James Madison won in Harrisonburg last year, while the Mount won in Emmitsburg two seasons ago. Mount fans may remember that night as the night a freshman point guard from Charlotte NC burst onto the scene and led the team to a thrilling overtime win.

The Mount finished second in the Northeast Conference this season and lost 48-46 to Robert Morris in the conference championship game and sports a 19-13 record. Madison is 19-14 after losing to George Mason in the CAA Quarterfinals. The Dukes were 9-9 on the season in the CAA, but did have an early season win over the Big East's Seton Hall.

About thefanblog

The Mount FanBlog is hosted by Ryan Raffensperger a CPA in Gettysburg, PA - Raffensperger, Martin & Finkenbiner, LLC . The firm was started by his father, a Mount grad, and has served customers in SouthCentral PA and Northern Maryland for 40+ years.

The younger Raffensperger has loved the Mount as long as he can remember, which basically means 1981 - and remembers the true #GloryDays of Memorial Gym. He remembers the players from those days to the athletes who play at Knott Arena today. And if it's a #MountMayhem day, it's going to be a good day.

He holds a Syracuse University degree in broadcast journalism. He has broadcast high school, college & minor league of all sports in his past, and regularly covered high school football for his home town paper. So the blog does make a little sense.

The blog was at one point much more active, but the advent of Twitter (follow @themountfanblog) has made writing a little less important. But he hopes that the balance swings back in favor of more traditional content soon.